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The coleoptera section at the Museum not only collects beetles, it also collects visitors! Explore the diversity of visitors working on the NHM's coleoptera collections.Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:54:46 GMTJive SBS 4.5.6.0 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/)2011-07-06T15:54:46ZWolfgang Schiller, Germanyhttp://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/blogs/beetlevisitors/2011/07/07/wolfgang-schiller-germany
<!-- [DocumentBodyStart:3eb7a80b-d1e1-4a14-8694-35eb3ad7e21a] --><div class="jive-rendered-content"><a href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/38-1850-17230/wolfgang+blogP6230158.JPG"><img alt="wolfgang blogP6230158.JPG" class="jive-image" height="336" src="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/38-1850-17230/448-336/wolfgang+blogP6230158.JPG" width="448"/></a><br/><div><strong>Visiting from:</strong> Germany</div><div><div><strong>Working with: </strong><a class="jive-link-external-small" href="../research-curation/staff-directory/entomology/b-garner/index.html">Beulah Garner</a>, Curator of Coleoptera, Dept of Entomology</div></div><div> </div><div> </div><div><strong>Arrived at the Museum:</strong> 20thJune 2011</div><div><strong>Leaving date:</strong> 23rd June 2011</div><div> </div><div> </div><div><strong>Research interests: </strong>Brentidae</div><p><strong>Goal of research at the Museum:</strong> Research Museum's Brentidae collection of approx. 1033 species (sensu stricto)</p><p><br/><strong>Wolfgang's impressions from a visit in the Coleoptera Department of NHM in June 2011:</strong></p><p><a href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/38-1850-17483/wollfgang+blog+specimensP6230160.JPG"><img alt="wollfgang blog specimensP6230160.JPG" class="jive-image" height="336" src="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/38-1850-17483/448-336/wollfgang+blog+specimensP6230160.JPG" width="448"/></a></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>From the 20th to 23rd&#160; June 2011 I had once more the opportunity to visit NHM. Staying near Earls Court I reached the Museum easily by foot. At Cromwell Road I was glad to see the towers of this cathedral of natural history again and when using the entrance at Exhibition Road I felt a little bit as a member of staff until the strict porter stopped my way.<br/>But soon the kind student Lucia guided me through the exhibitions to the Coleoptera section passing the large Pliosaurs, the giant <em>Diplodocus carnegii</em> Hatcher and finally the statue of Charles Darwin. This would be my way in the morning for the next few days.<br/>When she opened the sections' door seeing the green cabinets of the Collection I felt being at the best place.<br/>Upstairs I could settle down on two desks (!) with a very fine microscope and a socket for my note book an got the access to roughly 9 Million specimens of Coleoptera !</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>During this stay Beulah Garner, Lucia, Lydia, Chris Lyall and of course Max Barclay granted their kind hospitality to me.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>At former visits I had already experience with that giant collection looking for species from Carabidae: Lebia to Molytinae: Vanapa.<br/>As during the last visit now I concentrated on my studies with my favorite family Brentidae represented by 100 drawers in best order and with excellent identifications and many typical material especially of Pascoe, Sharp and Kleine. </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>It was amazing to examine specimens already well known people had in their hands.&#160; Many determination labels are written by Sharp, Kleine, Damoiseau, Sforzi &amp; Barolozzi and Mantilleri, all excellent specialist of brentids. <br/>The specimens of Sharp are as fine and accurate as his contribution in Biologia Centrali-Americana is.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>In most cases the labels are very detailed and complete, even sometimes demonstrating the different oppinions of&#160; different workers to one species, so one can read them as a book.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>When reading&#160; &ldquo;DUTCH NEW GUINEA: Cyclops Mts. Sabron Camp 2D 2,000 ft. vi.1936. L. E. Cheesman. B. M 1936-271&#8221; (holotype of <em>Cordus cheesmanae </em>(Kleine)), I imagine the photograph of Lucy Evelyn Cheesman on page 277 in Richard Fortey's Dry Store Room N&#176; 1 to what he writes: &ldquo;New Guinea tribesmen would fall silent under her imperious stare&#8221;.&#160; <br/>By the way this entertaining book gives an inside view to the entire NHM and every enthusiast of museums should have read it.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>In some cases there were very welcome biological data as &ldquo;ex <em>Quercus spicta</em>&#8221; from the Holotype of <em>Callipareus bistriatus</em> (Kleine) or &ldquo;Cratoxylon arborescens imported from Singapore&#8221;. This later is an up to 60 meters high member of Hypericaceae. To an European it is strange to imagine a St John's wort as such a high tree, but it is belonging to the same family. This data is from the Holotype of <em>Catablysmia navigator</em> Damoiseau now standing in its right place. When Sforzi &amp; Bartolozzi wrote their Cataloge of Brentids it was obviously missing.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Beulah also made the section's reprint collection available to me. There I could find for instance some publications of Kleine in the Journal of the Federated Malay State Museum for what I had searched for many years without success.<br/>So my 4th visit to NHM was very successful as the others had already been. That's why I wish to express my cordial thanks to Max Barclay and his team.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Wolfgang Schiller from Germany</p></div><!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:3eb7a80b-d1e1-4a14-8694-35eb3ad7e21a] -->pascoesharpkleinebrentidaeThu, 07 Jul 2011 09:23:24 GMThttp://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/blogs/beetlevisitors/2011/07/07/wolfgang-schiller-germanyBlaps2011-07-07T09:23:24Z5 years, 5 months ago0http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/blogs/beetlevisitors/comment/wolfgang-schiller-germanyhttp://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/blogs/beetlevisitors/feeds/comments?blogPost=1850